Molly Crabapple
Colonel John Bogdan Has No Nose
A fable about the former Guantánamo warden by Shaker Aamer, a British detainee.
Slaves of Happiness Island
What's often lost in the reporting of foreign labor in the United Arab Emirates are of the workers themselves.
Caught Between ISIS and Assad
The Syrian revolution did not start out sectarian. The Syrian war became so.
Elliot Rodger’s Online Life Provides a Glimpse at a Hateful Group of "Anti-Pick-up Artists"
Friday, Elliot Rodger allegedly killed six people before taking his own life. Before committing the massacre, Rodger released a string of vile, woman-hating videos detailing his sexual frustrations and plans for murder, in a manifesto that appears to...
Photo Real: On Photoshop, Feminism, and Truth
While websites delight in publishing un-retouched outtakes of Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham, Faith Hill, and the like, it's not Photoshop that misleads us. Photos themselves are already lies.
In Lebanon's Mountains, Syrians Face a Grim Future
The Lebanese government estimates there are 1.3 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, making them 1/4th of the country’s population.
The VICE Podcast - Sketching Rebellion with Molly Crabapple
This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with artist, writer, and VICE contributor Molly Crabapple, whose work deals with subcultures, politics, and rebellion.
Molly Crabapple Draws Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray
Camp X-Ray is the first place that the US held detainees in Guantanamo. Captives lived there for four months in 2002 while the military built permanent prison camps. Guards gave them two buckets: one for water and one for shit.
Molly Crabapple Sent Us Sketches from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Pretrial Hearings at Gitmo
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's military commission at Guantanamo Bay is a guarded affair. It will be the trial of the century, the first attempt at bringing a high-level war-on-terror detainee to justice.
Filthy Lucre
Artists too have their myths. The lies told to artists mirror the lies told to women. Be good enough, be pretty enough, and that guy or gallery will sweep you off your feet, to the picket-fenced land of generous collectors and two and a half kids. But...
Why Draw Pictures?
Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare. In the Renaissance, we dissected bodies in order to grasp the workings of a shoulder joint.